Germany in crisis as Angela Merkel’s refugee promise seriously backfires
THERE are one million reasons why many Germans now detest Angela Merkel
By ALLAN HALL
Express.co.uk
Wed, Dec 9, 2015
There could be many more by the new year. On Wednesday Germany announced that one million refugees had come to settle in the country since the beginning of the year. What began as an act of great humanity, borne in part out of Germany’s lingering guilt for the Second World War, has morphed into Merkel’s political suicide, that plunges her future into grave jeopardy.
Across the economic powerhouse of the continent the social fabric of society is tearing ever thinner. Though bogus scare stories of migrants raping, abusing, burgling and stealing have proved to be unfounded, their presence has served to trigger the biggest rise in far right support since the 1930s.
While the government acknowledged the one million mark had been hit, the truth is that the real figure could be even higher. It takes several weeks to process each individual, meaning that the 200,000 who came into the country in November alone may not be included in the statistics.
Nor are the unregistered, those who wandered through the porous borders of a divided Europe to get to their imagined promised land. Next Monday in the southern city of Karlsruhe “Mummy” – as Merkel is often referred to in the German media – will feel the Arctic blast of her party and allies when she attends the annual conference of her conservative CDU party.
Never mind that Time magazine has just named her its Person of the Year. For the first time in a decade the most powerful woman in the world knows that she has never been in a tighter spot. To backtrack on her open-door policies would be an admission of failure; to repeat that she is right and everyone else is wrong would be seen as arrogance.
Instead she will likely call on countries like Turkey and the Balkans to do more to stem the flow of refugees to give her and fellow Germans muchneeded breathing space. It is ironic, say critics, that Karlsruhe should have been chosen as the venue for the party shindig: the city is also home to Germany’s chief prosecutor who is currently considering a petition signed by hundreds of people asking him to bring criminal charges of treason against her.
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